My Beautiful Hotels

Back in November, I revealed that I'm working on an exciting new project. It is progressing quite wonderfully, so I am proud to share a little update with you:

In a few months I am hoping to launch the website, My Beautiful Hotels. It will be a website dedicated to the hotels that get it right.

For me, the perfect hotel provides excellent customer service, top-notch comfort and a home-away-from-home that has been carefully designed to fit in to its cultural and physical surroundings: from the rustic, minimalist interiors of a farmhouse inn in the middle of the Italian countryside, to a magical Bedouin tent-inspired room amidst desert dunes, to the charm and elegance of a room in Paris. These are the hotels that deserve a mention.

The customer service part can easily be achieved by employing the right people: happy ones! (It's a terrible feeling when a concierge is put out by your questions.)

And I feel ultimate comfort is attainable through the details. Think of a pretty porcelain coffee cup…

…or of these adequate, yet charming, light fixtures…

…or a deep soaker tub and a beautifully tiled shower with plush towels, while a luxurious scent emanates from the bath products, or a room with a view...

...or these soft linens which make it almost impossible to get up in the morning.

The good news is that these qualities do not only belong to five-star establishments. I have stayed at three and four-star hotels that have absolutely fit the bill. The trick is finding them, and this is where My Beautiful Hotels will come in.